Physicle masters to CGI

Thats a tough one. I can draw and cut my own parts.

I can help you out with both if you want. just PM me.

Al

Two options come to mind:
1) put the part onto a flatbed scanner with something next to it that gives scale to it. Take the image that you get and import it into a graphics program. Trace the parts in that graphics program, preferrably a vector based drawing program i.e. a full bred CAD program or a program like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw or OpenOffice Draw.

2) Trace the parts onto paper, scan those drawings and vectorize them or retrace them in the graphics software of your choice e.g. those mentioned above.

Michael

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3) Trace the parts using a digitizer tablet (can be bought for cheap on ebay nowadays, just make sure you have a computer that´s old enough to work with them). They are nothing else than glorified mouse pads with a very accurate mouse, they were used in the olden days to help digitize drawings like architectural drawings.

DaddyfromNaboo said:

Two options come to mind:
1) put the part onto a flatbed scanner with something next to it that gives scale to it. Take the image that you get and import it into a graphics program. Trace the parts in that graphics program, preferrably a vector based drawing program i.e. a full bred CAD program or a program like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw or OpenOffice Draw.

2) Trace the parts onto paper, scan those drawings and vectorize them or retrace them in the graphics software of your choice e.g. those mentioned above.

Michael

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I laid up this pattern with graphic tape and scanned it into Corel Draw. It's a simple, old school way of getting your art into digital form to export to laser.

Jim C